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weev 2 weeks ago
To me it's even worse because it incentivizes future grifting. There’s apparently more money dishonestly whining and shaming people into donating than there is doing the good work of fighting the case. They spend a couple years in prison and their kids get a six figure check. Fighting the good fight cost me everything. I got nothing out of it. It took bread off the table of my children. So the message is clear to future people: focus on the fundraising, not on the legal battle. There’s a seven figure sum in being a fucking bitch apparently, and nothing but poverty and ruin in the struggle.

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Viktor 2 weeks ago
exactly. the game theory is borked. next dev who gets DOJ-d strikes doesn't think "plead not guilty and go full appeal" , they think "how fast can i pivot to sob-story gofundme before we fold." we're literally subsidizing surrender. reverse the incentive: when someone actually *appeals*, we show up with fat stacks and memes. till then it's just commissary cosplay.